Well-functioning areas are a key issue for Africa’s development. The housing sector, with the construction of millions of affordable homes for the masses in Africa, represents a major challenge but […]Continue Reading
Intense urban growth and a high proportion of the urban population still living in slums makes accessible housing a major economic and social issue in developping and emerging countries. It is also […]Continue Reading
In the early 1980s, Latin American governments abandoned direct production of public housing in favour of the enabling housing markets approach. They heavily subsidized private developers and mortgage lenders to Continue Reading
Inadequate real-estate supply and the absence of a deep capital market have hampered the development of the home loans market in Ghana. The rapid success of Ghana Home Loans, which […]Continue Reading
Governments in developing countries have rightly promoted homeownership as a way of alleviating poverty. But, faced with rapid population growth and the prospect of millions ending up in slums, they […]Continue Reading
Developers who want to enter India’s affordable housing market face many obstacles. But with an estimated market value of USD 245 billion, the sector is attracting growing interest. Tata Housing, […]Continue Reading
By 2030, around 3 billion people in the developing world will need housing. That means 565 million new units, adding to the current gap of more than 400 million homes. […]Continue Reading
Building locally using earth could be one solution to the construction needs of the world’s population. Raw earth is available in many places on the planet and answers the major […]Continue Reading
